At home with our colonial work: ABC TV's New Look at New Guinea.

In 1958-1959 the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit made a series of documentaries on Papua and New Guinea for ABC Television, for the most part compiled from re-purposed material shot for documentaries that the Unit was producing for the Department of Territories at the time. This article examines '...

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Published in:Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 357 - 370
Main Author: Landman, Jane
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2010
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        Documentary films
        Nonfiction films
        ABC Television Network
        Civics education
        Social development
        Municipal services
        Papua New Guinea
        New Guinea (Island)
        Australia
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          New Guinea (Island)
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          Nonfiction films
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          Social development
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      ab: In 1958-1959 the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit made a series of documentaries on Papua and New Guinea for ABC Television, for the most part compiled from re-purposed material shot for documentaries that the Unit was producing for the Department of Territories at the time. This article examines 'transcoding' and domestic address in the New Look at New Guinea documentary series. It focuses on the modes of civic address deployed in early public service television documentary in the context of civic education about Australia's colonial development of peoples in Papua and New Guinea.
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